Stevenson, Robert Louis Balfour (1850-1894) and his books

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Preparation of the special field of Simone Kofler 8.C-1997 98 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON THE AUTHOR: Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh on the 13th of November in 1850. The son of a successful civil engineer, he was expected to follow the family profession, but finally was allowed to study law at Edinburgh University. Stevenson reacted violently against the Presbyterian 1 respectability of the city´s professional classes and this led to painful clashes with his parents. In his early twenties he became afflicted with a severe respiratory illness from which he was to suffer for the rest of his life; it was at this time that he determined to become a professional writer. In 1879 he nearly killed himself travelling to California to marryy Fanny Osbourne, an American ten years senior. ...